The Jewish Museum in Prague retrieves a missing 1901 Torah mantle

29. 5. 2015 Overview news

A lost Torah mantle from 1901 which came to the museum during the Second World War and disappeared from its collections after the war has been successfully brought back to the Czech Republic.

Last year the Jewish Museum in Prague managed to ensure the successful restitution and repatriation to Prague of a Torah curtain – originally from the South Bohemian town of Mladá Vožice – which was identified by the museum's experts in a Sotheby's New York sale in April 2013.

Since then, the museum has managed to trace another object that earlier disappeared from its collections – specifically, a Torah mantle from 1901, which came to the museum in a shipment of ritual objects from the Jewish religious community of Holešov during the Second World War. Read the press release and have a look at the photographs of the mantle.

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